Saint Anselm

Saint Anselm

Summary

Portrait of Saint Anselm Saint Anselm,  Cur Deus Homo

“ How necessary it is for the same being to be perfect God and perfect man. Chapter VIII: How it behooved God to take a man of the race of Adam, and born of a woman. Chapter IX: How of necessity the Word only can unite in one person with man. Chapter X: How this man dies not of debt; and in what sense he can or cannot sin; and how neither he nor an angel deserves praise for their holiness, if it is impossible for them to sin. Chapter XI: How Christ dies of his own power, and how mortality does not inhere in the essential nature of man. ”
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Portrait of Saint Anselm Saint Anselm,  Cur Deus Homo

“ How man was made holy by God, so as to be happy in the enjoyment of God. Chapter II: How man would never have died, unless he had sinned. Chapter III: How man will rise with the same body which he has in the world. Chapter IV: How God will complete, in respect to human nature, what he has begun. Chapter V: How, although the thing may be necessary, God may not do it by a compulsory necessity; and what is the nature of that necessity which removes or lessons gratitude, and what necessity increases it. Chapter VI: How no being, except the God-man, can make the atonement by which man is saved. ”
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Portrait of Saint Anselm Saint Anselm,  Cur Deus Homo

“ Again, in the second book, likewise, as if nothing were known of Christ, it is moreover shown by plain reasoning and fact that human nature was ordained for this purpose, viz., that every man should enjoy a happy immortality, both in body and in soul ”
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